Palace pressured US ABC to drop story on Jeffrey Epstein victim and Prince Andrew

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ABC anchorwoman Amy Robach, left, and Prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre (formerly Virginia Roberts) at Jeffrey Epstein's house in 2001, and with Epstein in New York in 2010. Credit: ABC/News Syndication/Virginia Roberts Giuffre

A US anchorwoman has claimed her interview with one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims was quashed by her TV station because of pressure from the royal family.

Leaked footage shows the ABC's Amy Robach complaining that her 2015 interview with Virginia Roberts Giuffre - in which she claimed she was forced by Epstein to have sex with the Duke of York on three separate occasions while under the legal age of consent - never made it to air.

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"Then the Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways," a clearly frustrated Robach, host of ABC's 20/20 program, tells someone off-camera.

"We were so afraid that we wouldn't be able to interview Kate and Will that we, that also quashed the story."

US anchorwoman Amy Robach claims her interview with one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims was quashed by her TV station three years ago because of pressure from the royal family.

US anchorwoman Amy Robach claims her interview with one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims was quashed by her TV station three years ago because of pressure from the royal family.

The video was released by the US anti-corruption website Project Veritas on Tuesday.

The journalist's candid rant also mentions former US President Bill Clinton, who, along with Prince Andrew and US President Donald Trump, has been associated with the billionaire financier and convicted sex offender.